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Transpennine Route Upgrade Community Fund

7 Aug 2024 - 12:17 by michelle.foster

You can apply now for small grant of between £1,000 and £5,000 to improve local spaces and services along the 70-mile Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) as part of a new community fund, delivered by GMCVO.

With billions of pounds being invested to transform train travel between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York, TRU has launched the community fund to give back to the communities it is working in.

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Movement for Good – Climate and environment special draw

7 Aug 2024 - 12:16 by michelle.foster

To support the incredible work that so many charities do to support the Climate and Environment, Movement for Good will award £5,000 to 10 charities working in this area.

The nomination window opens for five days only, 12 - 16 August 2024.

This special draw is open to charities whose core charitable purpose is to protect and conserve the natural environment and/or combat climate factors such as preventing global temperature increase.

Ten winning charities will be drawn to win £5,000 each during the week beginning 19 August and announced on 23 August 2024.

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Youth Futures Foundation – Evidence into Action

7 Aug 2024 - 12:15 by michelle.foster

Youth Futures Foundation is providing grants of up £75,000 per year for up to three years for voluntary and community sector organisations to co-develop and implement youth employment activities that are targeted at young people aged between 16 and 24 from minoritised ethnic communities who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET), or at risk of becoming NEET, across selected areas of London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the West Midlands.

The Evidence into Action Grants Programme will support organisations across two key phases:

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Home Truths 2, Race Equity Series: Inside intersectionality

24 September, 2024 - 10:30 to 11:30

Home Truths 2: Race Equity Series Session Three continues this event series hosted by ACEVO and Voice4Change England. This is an integral part of ACEVO and Voice4Change England’s ongoing initiative aimed at challenging and addressing racial inequality in the civil society.  

NCVO: Changing your organisation's legal structure

Learn about the process of converting your social purpose organisation to an alternative legal structure. Get practical advice on when to consider a change and the steps to take to make this happen

Is your current legal structure meeting the needs of your organisation and those it supports?

Perhaps you’re a community interest company (CIC) interested in exploring whether a charity structure could be more appropriate? Or a trustee board thinking about incorporating as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)?

22 August, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:30
Online
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NCVO: Financial skills for trustees

This course will revisit the core financial duties of a charity trustee and explore what it means to practice good financial governance

With increasing demands on services, precarious income streams, and financial uncertainty being the norm for many charities, it can be difficult to have full confidence when making financial decisions.

This course will support you to deliver good financial governance and lead your charity through financial uncertainty.

By the end of the training, you'll: 

6 September, 2024 - 10:00 to 13:00
Online
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NCVO: Strategic planning - processes and tools for direction and decision making

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

Whether your organisation is embarking on a new strategy as part of a regular review, or making strategic choices in response to challenges, this course will help leadership teams deal with difficult decision making.

By the end of this training, you'll:

4 September, 2024 - 10:00 to 15:30
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NCVO: Charity finance strategy

This course will give you an overview of how to build a simple finance strategy. We’ll introduce tools to help you build the financial resilience of your charity.

A finance strategy is vital for your organisation’s stability. This course will give you an overview of how to develop one.

You'll learn how to:

  • determine your current financial position
  • calculate the cost of your plans
  • assess the impact on reserves.
  • We’ll introduce the principles of financial resilience and share some financial planning tools to help.
30 August, 2024 - 10:00 to 15:30
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MYRIAD: Spark Project Fund

7 Aug 2024 - 09:39 by michelle.foster

The MYRIAD: Spark Project Fund is offering funding for test and learn projects exploring how culture and creativity can reduce mental health inequalities in global majority communities. Through these projects the aim is to create opportunities to explore new practice, new approaches and new partnerships. Expressions of interest are being invited from VCFSE, cultural sector and statutory organisations.

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